Tidal Wave 
Subtitle: How Women Changed America at Century's End
Publisher: Free Press
Published: March 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780029099124
Subjects: Women's studies; World history: from c 1900 -; Sociology; History: World; USA; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women's Studies - History; History / United States / General; United States - General; Feminism; History; United States; Women
First sentence: THE "FIRST WAVE" of women's rights activism in the United States built slowly from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century, finally cresting in 1920 with the passage of the nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing women the most fundamental right of citizenship, the vote.